My sister is always looking for a book that Pop can read that is relevant to a teen in this day and age (why are so many books for Black teens set during slavery or the civil rights movement?) is not about, ahem, bling-bling (I am not dogging Terry Woods but really, do YOU want YOUR 13 year old reading…
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 has started. Charleeeeeeeene and Leaky always used to come over and want to watch it and before I couldn’t get the fascination. After watching one of the many airings through various marathons, keeping up with what The Bee is watching and because I just had to see this Eva the Diva chick, I am…
This month is National Crochet Month (yay!) Since I still have a bunch of UFO’s I am just going to focus on those. I am also going to teach The Bee how to crochet. I have a book for kids, a website and extra yarn. Taking a deep breath and grabbing a hook,-r
Today’s preschool storyhour was dedicated to the five senses. We did a reverse storytime: activity/craft first. The reading last. The normal group was not in attendance which actually worked to my advantage. Since today’s group was smaller there was no pulling of Miss Rachée in 18 different directions. I set up exploration/discovery stations for each sense and let the kids…
or after the snow day, an avalanche of work. The best thing about snow days are also the worst thing: no work. My return to work was a return to a pile of books on my desk, a ton* of e-mail waiting for my response, SIX voice mails (although not one of them was the phone calls I was waiting…